Hue Bulbs are zigbee. They weren’t bricked. You can use them with any zigbee adapter plugged into home assistant, hubitat, etc. I believe you are thinking of the hue hub that began requiring a hue account for “security reasons”
sue_her_birds
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I would go with option one to start out. If the lights connect to HomeKit, then you probably don’t need Matter at the moment. And starting out, working within one vendor simplifies things for beginners. The nice thing about the IKEA stuff is that the devices use the zigbee wireless protocol to talk to the hub. So if you ever decide to go with a more capable automation software (Home Assistant, Hubitat, etc) the bulb and light strip can connect directly via an open zigbee dongle.
The problem with option two:
The Philips Hue bridge pretty much only controls Phillips hue devices (with a few exceptions). It does not control Nanoleaf devices which are WiFi based (if they are the Thread based ones, then you would need a Thread border router like the HomePods. Hue bridge doesn’t have Thread) It looks like the IKEA devices can be controlled by the Hue bridge but at that point, why not just go with the cheaper and probably more reliable option of using the same vendor’s bridge?
Yes it’s possible to set these with the configuration parameters. We need to know which z-wave integration you’re using to know how to find those.
You can use these devices with HomeKit and firewall then off from the internet so they can no longer phone home. I have mine brought into home assistant with the HomeKit controller integration and it’s on a WiFi network with no connection to the outside world. The downside is that it can’t receive a firmware update.